George Platonoff

Russian spelling Георгий Степанович Платонов

Born 3.05.1897     Place Ukrainka (?), Kherson, Ukraine     Ethnic origin Russian     Religion Russian Orthodox

Father Platonoff, Stephan     Mother Platonoff, Tatiana

Arrived at Australia

            from Russia     on 12.11.1911     per Kumano Maru     disembarked at Brisbane

Residence before enlistment settled with parents and brother Thomas Stephen Platonoff (Platonaff) at Booyal, Cordalba, worked on Cordalba-Dallarnil railway construction

Occupation labourer

Service

service number 4754     enlisted 15.11.1915     POE Brisbane

unit 25th Battalion, 9th Battalion       rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1919      casualties WIA 1917

final fate RTA 20.05.1919       discharged 20.08.1919

Naturalisation served as naturalised British subject

Residence after the war 1940 Childers, 1958 Innisfail, Qld

WWII served 1940-1943, 1GB, 15 GB; L/C

Died 23.08.1958 Brisbane

Materials naturalisation (NAA)

digitised WWI service records (NAA)

WWII service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

About 1912 some ethnic Russian families took up farming land in the sugar-cane area around Cordalba, Queensland. The heads of three of these families were friends and had previously served in the Russian army. Two of them subsequently enlisted in the AIF: 36-year-old Matfeus Oleinikoff (who had eight children), and 33-year-old Feodot Peachenoff (who had one daughter). The third one, Stephen Platonoff, was too old to fight but his two sons Thomas and George enlisted instead.

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